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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
thecollector ^ | 10/10/2024 | Peter Zablocki,

Posted on 10/11/2024 9:59:28 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Richard Nixon’s presidency is a study in contrasts. He achieved significant foreign policy successes and domestic environmental and social progress, yet Watergate ultimately tarnished his legacy, overshadowing all that came before it. The thirty-seventh American commander-in-chief is remembered as both a consequential president and one who brought down his own administration and legacy.

The year 1968 would go down in history as one of chaos and violence. With the disastrous Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, civil rights unrest, political polarization, and violence at the Democratic Convention stemming from President Lyndon B. Johnson’s refusal to continue as the American president, the Republican party had finally caught a break. After nearly a decade of having Democrats residing in the Oval Office, former vice-president Richard M. Nixon’s promise of unifying the nation, restoring law and order, and ending the Vietnam War was enough to propel the one-time 1960 election loser to the White House.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: amtrak; beyond; china; epa; legacy; nixon; redchina; richardnixon; watergate
Left hated him for Alger Hiss, had to be punished for the 1972 landslide with Watergate, Tried to end Vietnam war, wage and price controls = crap, EPA = crap. He loved this country. Should have never protected his people during Watergate. I give him a C +
1 posted on 10/11/2024 9:59:28 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Spot on. I agree, but would have given him a little better grade. EPA and Price Controls definitely are not conservatively principled.

And yes. He DID love his country.


2 posted on 10/11/2024 10:05:28 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; lightman

Watergate was a deep-state scam!

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/22/revisiting-watergate-inside-first-deep-state-hoax/


3 posted on 10/11/2024 10:06:17 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nixon was the first to expose the deep state, leftist, Marxist cabal that was metastasizing in our country.


4 posted on 10/11/2024 10:11:41 AM PDT by oldbrowser ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Left owes Nixon a huge posthumous apology over the illegal spying they did on Trump.


5 posted on 10/11/2024 10:15:42 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All

Don’t forget Amtrak. What should have been done instead is railroad deregulation and the end of draconian taxation.


6 posted on 10/11/2024 10:39:45 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: rlmorel

Thanks


7 posted on 10/11/2024 10:42:06 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I will always, as an American, be grateful to President Richard Nixon for Operation Linebacker II in December 1972. THAT was how it should have been done all along.


8 posted on 10/11/2024 11:00:12 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: rlmorel

Nixon tried to work with them a la Mittens. McLame was the left’s favorite republican until he got nominated. It’s the left.

China opening was like deficit spending under Reagan-unconservative except when dealing with the USSR. No need for that stuff now. Both Bushes pid for dealing with the left.


9 posted on 10/11/2024 11:20:25 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ChicagoConservative27
In the context of today's political schemes, tricks, lies, deceit and assassination attempts, Watergate is like a bunch of teenagers/young adults doing a dine-and-dash maneuver. To me, Nixon's legacy is his citizen diplomatic overtures to China and succeeding somewhat in opening it up to the West.
10 posted on 10/11/2024 11:23:50 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I assume you are talking about Communist China.

The word was a very different place in 1972, and Nixon was trying to play off Communist China against the Soviet Union a la geopolitics of the day. He probably figured if we could open markets in Communist China, even better.

Nixon did not cause the problems we see today with Communist China. That was caused by Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama.


11 posted on 10/11/2024 11:35:40 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: rlmorel

Nixon did not cause the problems we see today with Communist China. That was caused by Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama.

^^^^^^^^

This.


12 posted on 10/11/2024 11:37:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: All

Id Like to know why Hillary was dismissed from this


13 posted on 10/11/2024 11:38:46 AM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism .)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Good Vietnam record, otherwise LIBERALISM AND GLOBALISM.


14 posted on 10/11/2024 12:00:59 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Noxious Nixon began the EPA on advise from Halderman and Ehrlichman after the pair toured the San Juan Islands in Washington State.

Noxious Nixon challenged Aboriginal Rights in Alaska, the case created thre Native Corporations which own the hunting and fishing rights as well as the rights to a lot of land.

The same case then devolved into the Boldt Decision where the named man was brought in from the Wage and Price Control Board to sit on the case brought by the Nisqulally Indian tribe big shot, Bob Statiacum, for the right to fish in-river for salmon. Boldt’s wife was a member of the tribe, and the conclusion was not only could the tribe fish out the returning salmon stocks, but they were entitled to <80% of the entire river run.

The other tribes quickly piled on and obtained the same right foe all other rivers and salmon stocks, resulting in the decimation and in some cases elimination of salmon stocks, all of which had been carefully nurtured and regulated for over a century.

Non-Indian sport and commercial salmon fishermen were virtually shut down to conserve the tiny portion remaining after escapement was factored in.

The Commercial fishermen took the case to SCOTUS were they lost due to legal trickery by the State’s AG. However, the Court ruled that the Tribes were only entitled to one third of a given run of salmon. The State, under the AG, then decided that the Tribes were due more than the 1/3rd and so took escapement out of the Non-Indian share, drastically reducing it. Just to make their point the State went along with the Tribes in giving them first crack at the stocks and only allowing the Non-Indians to fish for their share, after the tribes had taken what they claimed was their share.

The Tribes grew very rich to the extent that on fellow bought a bank, others received free fishing boats.

The salmon runs never recovered; the State openly sold eyed salmon eggs for profit to fish farmers around the world. They had begun that practice under the cover of ‘darkness’ earlier to sell Skagit River king, sockeye, and coho salmon to the Fish & Wildlife Departments around the Great Lakes. The practice was against State law, and when the evidence was presented, it was ignored. So after the 1978 SCOTUS decision (WA vs Fishing Vessel), they began the wholesale elimination of entire runs which had been difficult to manage by selling the eyed eggs - the money went into the General fund becoming untraceable.

The commercial salmon fishermen lost everything homes boats family wives children. But the Federal government to the rescue: B. Clinton offered job training for good paying jobs, which in the end, turned out to not exist. Along the way commercial fishermen were defamed as worse than child molesters for the local papers, in public meetings, from church pulpits, and, not to put too fine a point on it, various commercial fishing leaders died under ‘odd’ circumstances, others were shot and fire bombed by State fisheries cops, the US Coast Guard got in the act after any commercial fishing offense was upped from a misdemeanor to a felony: in one instance they cornered some fishing boats, manning the bow of the cutter was a kid on a locked and loaded .50.

Nixon roundly hated.


15 posted on 10/11/2024 12:45:07 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If Nixon was a Dem Watergate would have been buried from the get go.


16 posted on 10/11/2024 2:57:29 PM PDT by moreisee (The Media is the enemy.)
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To: moreisee

Hey PIF. Should I read ‘Salmon Wars?’


17 posted on 10/11/2024 5:49:37 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: rlmorel

**Nixon did not cause the problems we see today with Communist China. That was caused by Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama.**

A slippery slope that was greased by folks that didn’t think like Nixon. All were out for themselves and friends. You don’t need a crisis to see an opportunity.


18 posted on 10/11/2024 6:16:25 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: rlmorel
But he did.
Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the UN.
That was Goal #7 on the list of 45 communist goals for the USA. You grant one of them, it’s like granting all of them.
19 posted on 10/11/2024 9:00:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

There is always a slippery slope. Always.


20 posted on 10/11/2024 9:54:48 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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